Prologue.
"So this is it, you are breaking off our engagement?" Dannie stared at Paul in utter disbelief. "After a year and a half you're telling me you no longer want to marry me?"
"I'm sorry, Dannie, I really am, but I'm afraid my feelings..."
"Feelings? You have no feelings, Paul, or you would have informed me of this before I came to America! I sailed all the way from England! Would it really have been so difficult for you to write me a letter?"
There was an uncomfortable pause.
"Once again, I'm sorry, Dannie."
"You're...you're sorry? Well, Paul Richardson, I'm afraid your being sorry doesn't do me any good."
Paul reached over and took her hand. "Goodbye Dannie, I hope you will be happy..."
"Don't speak to me about happiness!" Dannie snapped, yanking her hand from his. "First he breaks with me and then he wishes me happy. Paul, I despise the day I first met you!" Dannie turned and walked away, tears burning in her eyes. Why was this happening to her? First the unexpected death of her parents and now Paul suddenly ends his engagement with her. Where was she to go? What was she to do?
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Westbound (Love Travels West, Book 1)
Historical FictionIf it were easy, it wouldn't be love. With her parents dead and her engagment in ruins, Danielle Preston decides to head out west in the hopes of starting her life over again. But the West turns out to be far more than she bargained for. Jake has...
